Sunday, March 7, 2010

BitTorrent and Copywrite

I'm sick of artist complaining that they don't make money anymore because people download music for free. Truthfully, they probably loose a lot of money due to free downloading but if they're famous, who cares? They already get paid bagillions of dollars. And if you're and artist struggling to get by, people aren't going to buy your music anyway. If they can get it for free you're going to get more publicity and make money at shows, so can it whiny artists. Plus, if I really like an artist and think they deserve my money, I'll go buy their CD. Which I guess is a dying breed because of the bit torrent craze, I don't think so, I buy more CD's now that I can download free music. And when I have iTunes money, I'll spend all of it fast. I have no problem with buying music and I assume most people are the same way, I just use Bit Torrent and Limewire to expand my musical horizon, which is always encompassing more and more artists that I now have the chance to buy music from. Therefore, these are very beneficiary programs, for everyone, artists can become more popular, if they deserve it, and the listeners don't have to spend money.
So really it's a win win situation. And again for those big artists, most of the bank in the biz for you is coming from ticket sales, and with an expanded fan-base because of DOWNLOADED MUSIC!!!! the amount of people going to concerts must be increasing. So yeah, and how permanent are CD's? They aren't. One scratch that's big enough and that music is gone forever. If you download it, as long as your hard-drive doesn't crash you still have the music and even if it does, you can just download it again, for free! So really though, free music definitely should not be unlawful. Movies on the other hand, I can understand, but that's a totally different story. To the record companies and artists, I'm sorry if you can't buy a luxurious jet and have to get a smaller one because of downloaded music, but for the good of the people, let it be.

1 comment:

  1. (I think I haven't given you credit yet because of incompleteness on this one...)

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